Departmental Honors

Departmental honors may be established and awarded by any Columbia College department or academic program, and is recorded on a student’s final transcript. Students should consult with their director of undergraduate studies no later than the beginning of the first term of their senior year if they wish to be considered for departmental honors. Students who are awarded departmental honors are notified by their department in mid-May. Not all departments and programs offer departmental honors.

College guidelines for departmental honors include the following four criteria:

Departmental honors are awarded to no more than 10%, or, in small departments, one member, of the graduating majors (including all October, February, and May degrees);

A grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.6 in major courses is expected for a student to be considered for departmental honors;

An honors thesis or equivalent project of high quality should be required by each department or academic program in order to receive departmental honors;

Academic departments and programs consider both academic standing and disciplinary standing within the College when awarding departmental honors.

African American Studies

  • Bryn-Ashley Evans CC’21

  • Imani Benberry CC’21

American Studies

  • Rachel Ijams CC’21

Anthropology

  • Theodore Michaels CC’21

  • Kiran Zelbo CC’21

Archaeology

  • Madison Aubey CC’21

Architecture

  • Karina Encarnacion CC’21

Art History

  • Octavia Young CC’21
  • Mary Fellios CC’21
  • Bryn-Ashley Evans CC’21

Biology

  • Dimitri Cadet CC’21
  • Maria Trifas CC’21
  • Ethan Chen CC’21
  • Eli Pinker CC’21
  • Sophia DiLorio CC’21
  • Anna Christou CC’21
  • Emily Wooder CC’21
  • Jenny Jin CC’21
  • Nicole Liberman CC’21
  • Julia Parsley CC’21
  • Caroline Magalhaes de Toledo CC’21
  • Natalia Rodriguez CC’21
  • Katherine Long CC’21

Chemistry

  • Vanessa Dippon CC’21
  • Rachael Mow CC’21
  • Michael Van Duinen CC’21

Classics

  • Herbert Rimerman CC’21
  • Uwade Akhere CC’21

Comparative Literature and Society

  • Emilie Biggs CC’21
  • Liberty Martin CC’21
  • Jennifer Lee CC’21

Creative Writing

  • Anna Chavez CC’21

Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

  • Debbie Sin Ki Leung CC’21
  • Caroline Davis Soper CC’21

Earth and Environmental Sciences

  • Anna Ledeczi CC’21

East Asian Languages and Cultures

  • Helen Zhang CC’21

Economics

  • Giovanni Giovanni Topa CC’21
  • Leopold Leopold Aschenbrenner CC’21
  • Michelle Michelle Chen CC’21
  • Jackson Nichols CC’21
  • Monika Francsics CC’21
  • Blaine Helleloid CC’21
  • Mary Olson CC’21
  • Maggie Gleason CC’21
  • Eric Heiser CC’21

English and Comparative Literature

  • Lauren Alcindor CC’21
  • Sara Bell CC’21
  • Imani Benberry CC’21
  • Ethan Fenlon CC’21
  • Maeve Flaherty CC’21
  • Emily Jordan CC’21
  • Klara Pokrzywa CC’21
  • Jared Rush CC’21
  • Isaac Schott-Rosenfield CC’21
  • Hanna Sweeney CC’21
  • Robert Jackson Watson CC’21
  • Thomas Mar Wee CC’21

Film and Media Studies

  • Payton McCarty-Simas CC’21
  • Harry Ottensoser CC’21

French

  • Jessica Cohen CC’21

History

  • Kayla Abrams CC’21
  • Jasleen Chaggar CC’21
  • Emma Kateman CC’21
  • Zachary Kimmel CC’21
  • Grace MacNeill CC’21
  • Willem Morris CC’21
  • Ari Papahronis CC’21
  • Max Watson CC’21

Human Rights

  • Kendra Neumann CC’21
  • Maude Weiss CC’21

Italian

  • Christopher Mingo CC’21

Latin American and Iberian Cultures

  • Maximillian Calleo CC’21

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

  • Gabriel Azevedo Duarte Franco CC’21

Linguistics

  • Taylor Roberts-Sampson CC’20

Mathematics

  • Tsahi Halyo CC’21
  • Christian Serio CC’21
  • Serio Serio CC’21

Medical Humanities

  • Midori Hosoda CC’21
  • Gabriel Garon CC’21

Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies

  • Clara Harter CC’20
  • Mehrdad Dariush CC’20

Modern Greek

  • Antigone Ntagkounakis CC’21

Music

  • Vincent Khac Le CC’21
  • Loc Sang Andrew Chan CC’21
  • Simon Cohen CC’21

Philosophy

  • Isabel Herburger CC’21
  • Joseph Clateman CC’21
  • Martin Meyer CC’21
  • Nicholas Gauthier CC’21

Physics

  • Gabriel Matos CC’21
  • Aidan Reddy CC’21

Political Science

  • Fonda Shen CC’21
  • Vishesh Sharma CC’21
  • Jordan Cohen CC’21
  • Andrew Albor CC’21
  • Lowri Thomas CC’21
  • Hiba Ismail CC’21
  • Nikol Tang CC’21
  • Daniel Jang CC’21
  • Helen Sayegh CC’21
  • Alexander Siegel CC’21
  • Skye Bork CC’21
  • Matthew Cohen CC’21
  • Nia Atkins CC’21
  • Mary Craig CC’21
  • Eric Scheuch CC’21
  • Cassidy Gabriel CC’21

Psychology

  • Jessica Hecht CC’21
  • Canfer Akbulut CC’21
  • Sunjae Shim CC’21
  • Edoardo Spolaore CC’21
  • Nathan Martin CC’21
  • Nicholas Kathios CC’21
  • Nick Manfred CC’21
  • Shariq Jumani CC’21

Slavic

  • Wanzhen Jun CC’21

Sociology

  • Antigone Ntagkounakis CC’21
  • Nicholas Rubertone CC’21
  • Payton Johnson CC’21

Statistics

  • Sophie Bair CC’21
  • Zhouyao Xie CC’21
  • Liyi Zhang CC’21

Sustainable Development

  • Sophia Ahmed CC’21
  • Isobel Miles CC’21

Visual Arts

  • Zena Ezz Eidin CC’21

Women’s and Gender Studies

  • Isabel Wong CC’21